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Vol. 11, No. 19
THE GAUNTLET, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
The University of Calgary
Parity granted
at U of Alberta
EDMONTON GENERAL FACULTY MEMBERS DISCUSS STUDENT ROLE
. . . before crucial vote on student/faculty parity on GFC
Oppressed peoples need
unity, says Kate Millett
MONTREAL (CUPI) —
"There's a spectre haunting the
country these days and it's
called Women's Liberation."
These were Kate Milieu's opening words as she spoke to a
crammed auditorium in Lea-
cock Building, McGill, at a lecture sponsored by the McGill
debating union.
Millett called for total change
in our society's economic, political, social, and cultural structures. She stressed the need for
alignment of all groups of op-
p r e s s ed peoples including
blacks, students, women, and
even man who must be liberated from the pressures of then-
status.
"Men are encouraged to
strike for superiority which
they are incapable of attaining," she stated. "Great
changes must be made until
masculinity and femininity give
way to humanity."
Recounting a brief history of
the movement, Millett recalled
that in the years between 1840
and 1920 women fought for and
received "minumum rights
which proved to be superficial".
In the fifty years before the recent revival of the movement a
"counter-revolutionary" environment prevailed which is being
challenged by the modern
movement.
To emphasize the very plight
of women, she cited her work
last summer with prostitutes
who provide "the most flagrant
case of oppression. They are
exploited by everyone. Imposed
self-hatred has become their
whole life. This is the most
crucial and most heart-breaking situation of women today."
Employment statistics speak
for themselves in proving extreme exploitation of women.
Women's average incomes are
half those of men, while the
educational level of women is
generally higher than that of
men in comparable income
brackets. Millet calls her
perspective on Liberation "Sexual Politics" which manifests
itself in our society where "one
group controls the lives and
destinies of another. The value
system has entered into the
psychic structure of its victims.
Men and women are two cultures with totally different experiences."
She stated that the patriarchal basis of our culture oppresses women by maintaining
their economic dependence and
perpetuating myths of the inferiority of the female. "This system is very carefully policed.
Wc are made to suffer very,
very much, if we do not conform."
To abolish "the ownership of
people under the guise of affection" and social oppression of
all people. Millett emphasized
the unification of all liberation
groups. "Gay Liberation and
Women's Liberation will have
to work together, for when men
are despised for being effeminate, women will never be free."
Children too have been deprived of their rights and are
regarded as possessions.
"'People have children for selfish reasons. The solution is to
have decent child-care centres
that are not kiddy parking
lots."
Even women students are victims of oppression, for "there
is an illusion of equality among
students which ends at graduation. It's a shill! "
Millett condemned the press
for its light-hearted and sensa-
tionalistic attitudes towards the
Women's Liberation movement,
citing alleged bra-burning incidents as an example.
"The press treats political
movements with frivolity. The
movement is very serious, not
funny, and not to be condes
cended to. We are trying to
restore human dignity to women."
EDMONTON (CUP) — Students at the University of Alberta have received parity
with faculty on the General
Faculties Council, the major
decision making body of the
university.
A special meeting which approved the step last Wednesday
was televised to over 700 students in the student union
theatre. The recommendations
of an ad hoc committee established in September 1969. were
approved by a vote of 42 to 33.
Chaired by administra t ion
president Max Wyman, the
committee recommended a composition of 49 students and 49
faculty out of a total membership of 127. Although the student
vote will now theoretically
carry equal weight with that
of the faculty bloc, it is assumed that the administration's
29 votes would tend to swing
contentious issues in favor of
the faculty.
In addition to Wyman, the ad
hoc committee included two
faculty members, two representatives of the student council
and one from the graduate
students union.
The closest U of C has come
to such a committee was the
GFC Stewart committee, which
was investigating the entire
area of student affairs.
The Stewart report makes
no mention of student parity in
university government, and instead suggests the establishment
of a new body which would seat
students and administrators.
The Edmonton GFC decision
came as a surprise to most as
Council may drop AAS;
appoints projects man
Students Legislative Council
made noises about, withdrawing
from the Alberta Association of
Students Monday evening, but
can't quite decide what to do
about it.
They eventually decided to
pass a motion of withdrawal,
but not until they were assured
that the AAS executive would
have a chance to talk them out
of it.
The AAS constitution requires
at least 21 days notice of withdrawal, which does not become
definite until the association's
conference in March.
"That will give them a chance
to get down here and convince
us," said external vice president Barry Sharpe.
"We're serving notice, and we
can rescind it," added SLC president Dave Hunt.
The motion to withdraw was
tabled in council's second attempt to do so, then resurrected and passed several hours
later.
The stated reason for withdrawal was that AAS was useless to U of C. while the saving
of a large sum of fees money
hovered in the background.
"I'm sure the fault is mostly
ours, but we're not getting anything out of it," Sharpe commented.
"They just want our money,"
he continued.
He explained that Alberta's
two universities can perform
educational lobby functions in
Edmonton just as well on their
own, but that AAS was formed
to give smaller institutions such
as community colleges and
nursing schools, which are virtually fundless, a voice at the
legislature.
Sharpe and other SLC members charged that AAS had
failed to perform any lobbying
functions and that the organization's research program had
floundered.
Sharpe suggested that AAS
was "no better than an answering service," and mentioned
that U of C delegates to conferences were being ignored by the
AAS executive.
"We're there, that's about all.
And we don't have time to get
involved in those things."
Council isn't yet sure if a
student plebiscite would be
necessary to confirm the withdrawal.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Ray Burgess is to become the
Student's Union Special Projects
Officer.
After an incarnera debate
SLC announced that the motion
to place Burgess as SPO had
passed.
Burgess is not related to the
previous SLC President Rod
Burgess.
Frank Dabbs, former SPO
and contender for the present
position, was judged to be not
as qualified as Burgess.
Dabbs had resigned last fall
when the SLC President Rod
Burgess interfered with his
job, and caused the provincial
government to reverse its decision.
Dabbs had obtained a more
liberal application of student
housing legislations—something
that Ray Burgess will attempt
to do also.
Other tasks at hand are administering work projects and
investigating student assistance-
tasks that Dabbs had tackled,
defeated and submitted work
papers on.
it was expected that there
would be overriding support for
a dissenting minority report by
committee member D. T. Anderson, professor of law.
The minority report, frequently labelled insulting to students,
said that while there are areas
in which students have shown
themselves to be competent,
such as food services and the
organization of sporting and
other curricular activities. it
would be best to leave the situation as is.
Other opposition was based on
the premise that the university
community was "not ready"
for such a step. Professional
faculties especially w o r ried
that increased student power on
the governing body responsible
for academic standards would
endanger the acceptance of degrees from the U of A as valuable qualifications.
It was felt that students «ere
at university to get credentials,
their contribution coming after
graduation, with the feedback
of their education into the community at large. It was also
suggested that the new body
would be too large and unwieldy
to be effective.
The GFC formerly had a
membership of 82. with three
undergrad and two grad students and 49 faculty.
However, members vote on
their individual preference and
not on the instruction of the
faculty they represent, and the
new structure passed the Wednesday meeting.
In introducing the proposal,
Wyman stressed that students
are a constituent part of the
university and not mere clients
Of it.
Universities, he said. must
accept the challenge of the
future.
"The universities in the
United States do not do this and
are being ruled by fear. Academics fear students and both
fear administrators. Society is
fearful of what is happening* in
universities, and from legislation now being passed, universities in turn have good reason
to fear society. This must not
happen in Canada."
A few years ago, the U of A
had a large and active Students
for a Democratic University
group, based on the American
SDS concept. Such h i s tories
tend to make university administrators very conscious of the
student role.
Increased student representation, Wyman said, is a "challenge to stop complaining and
protesting and start initiating
and innovating."
The students council, which
is in agreement with the new
GFC composition, is opposed
to the method of selection of
student members. The proposal
that was passed would bypass
the council in favor of direct
student elections from each of
the faculties or schools.

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Vol. 11, No. 19
THE GAUNTLET, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1971
The University of Calgary
Parity granted
at U of Alberta
EDMONTON GENERAL FACULTY MEMBERS DISCUSS STUDENT ROLE
. . . before crucial vote on student/faculty parity on GFC
Oppressed peoples need
unity, says Kate Millett
MONTREAL (CUPI) —
"There's a spectre haunting the
country these days and it's
called Women's Liberation."
These were Kate Milieu's opening words as she spoke to a
crammed auditorium in Lea-
cock Building, McGill, at a lecture sponsored by the McGill
debating union.
Millett called for total change
in our society's economic, political, social, and cultural structures. She stressed the need for
alignment of all groups of op-
p r e s s ed peoples including
blacks, students, women, and
even man who must be liberated from the pressures of then-
status.
"Men are encouraged to
strike for superiority which
they are incapable of attaining," she stated. "Great
changes must be made until
masculinity and femininity give
way to humanity."
Recounting a brief history of
the movement, Millett recalled
that in the years between 1840
and 1920 women fought for and
received "minumum rights
which proved to be superficial".
In the fifty years before the recent revival of the movement a
"counter-revolutionary" environment prevailed which is being
challenged by the modern
movement.
To emphasize the very plight
of women, she cited her work
last summer with prostitutes
who provide "the most flagrant
case of oppression. They are
exploited by everyone. Imposed
self-hatred has become their
whole life. This is the most
crucial and most heart-breaking situation of women today."
Employment statistics speak
for themselves in proving extreme exploitation of women.
Women's average incomes are
half those of men, while the
educational level of women is
generally higher than that of
men in comparable income
brackets. Millet calls her
perspective on Liberation "Sexual Politics" which manifests
itself in our society where "one
group controls the lives and
destinies of another. The value
system has entered into the
psychic structure of its victims.
Men and women are two cultures with totally different experiences."
She stated that the patriarchal basis of our culture oppresses women by maintaining
their economic dependence and
perpetuating myths of the inferiority of the female. "This system is very carefully policed.
Wc are made to suffer very,
very much, if we do not conform."
To abolish "the ownership of
people under the guise of affection" and social oppression of
all people. Millett emphasized
the unification of all liberation
groups. "Gay Liberation and
Women's Liberation will have
to work together, for when men
are despised for being effeminate, women will never be free."
Children too have been deprived of their rights and are
regarded as possessions.
"'People have children for selfish reasons. The solution is to
have decent child-care centres
that are not kiddy parking
lots."
Even women students are victims of oppression, for "there
is an illusion of equality among
students which ends at graduation. It's a shill! "
Millett condemned the press
for its light-hearted and sensa-
tionalistic attitudes towards the
Women's Liberation movement,
citing alleged bra-burning incidents as an example.
"The press treats political
movements with frivolity. The
movement is very serious, not
funny, and not to be condes
cended to. We are trying to
restore human dignity to women."
EDMONTON (CUP) — Students at the University of Alberta have received parity
with faculty on the General
Faculties Council, the major
decision making body of the
university.
A special meeting which approved the step last Wednesday
was televised to over 700 students in the student union
theatre. The recommendations
of an ad hoc committee established in September 1969. were
approved by a vote of 42 to 33.
Chaired by administra t ion
president Max Wyman, the
committee recommended a composition of 49 students and 49
faculty out of a total membership of 127. Although the student
vote will now theoretically
carry equal weight with that
of the faculty bloc, it is assumed that the administration's
29 votes would tend to swing
contentious issues in favor of
the faculty.
In addition to Wyman, the ad
hoc committee included two
faculty members, two representatives of the student council
and one from the graduate
students union.
The closest U of C has come
to such a committee was the
GFC Stewart committee, which
was investigating the entire
area of student affairs.
The Stewart report makes
no mention of student parity in
university government, and instead suggests the establishment
of a new body which would seat
students and administrators.
The Edmonton GFC decision
came as a surprise to most as
Council may drop AAS;
appoints projects man
Students Legislative Council
made noises about, withdrawing
from the Alberta Association of
Students Monday evening, but
can't quite decide what to do
about it.
They eventually decided to
pass a motion of withdrawal,
but not until they were assured
that the AAS executive would
have a chance to talk them out
of it.
The AAS constitution requires
at least 21 days notice of withdrawal, which does not become
definite until the association's
conference in March.
"That will give them a chance
to get down here and convince
us," said external vice president Barry Sharpe.
"We're serving notice, and we
can rescind it," added SLC president Dave Hunt.
The motion to withdraw was
tabled in council's second attempt to do so, then resurrected and passed several hours
later.
The stated reason for withdrawal was that AAS was useless to U of C. while the saving
of a large sum of fees money
hovered in the background.
"I'm sure the fault is mostly
ours, but we're not getting anything out of it," Sharpe commented.
"They just want our money,"
he continued.
He explained that Alberta's
two universities can perform
educational lobby functions in
Edmonton just as well on their
own, but that AAS was formed
to give smaller institutions such
as community colleges and
nursing schools, which are virtually fundless, a voice at the
legislature.
Sharpe and other SLC members charged that AAS had
failed to perform any lobbying
functions and that the organization's research program had
floundered.
Sharpe suggested that AAS
was "no better than an answering service," and mentioned
that U of C delegates to conferences were being ignored by the
AAS executive.
"We're there, that's about all.
And we don't have time to get
involved in those things."
Council isn't yet sure if a
student plebiscite would be
necessary to confirm the withdrawal.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Ray Burgess is to become the
Student's Union Special Projects
Officer.
After an incarnera debate
SLC announced that the motion
to place Burgess as SPO had
passed.
Burgess is not related to the
previous SLC President Rod
Burgess.
Frank Dabbs, former SPO
and contender for the present
position, was judged to be not
as qualified as Burgess.
Dabbs had resigned last fall
when the SLC President Rod
Burgess interfered with his
job, and caused the provincial
government to reverse its decision.
Dabbs had obtained a more
liberal application of student
housing legislations—something
that Ray Burgess will attempt
to do also.
Other tasks at hand are administering work projects and
investigating student assistance-
tasks that Dabbs had tackled,
defeated and submitted work
papers on.
it was expected that there
would be overriding support for
a dissenting minority report by
committee member D. T. Anderson, professor of law.
The minority report, frequently labelled insulting to students,
said that while there are areas
in which students have shown
themselves to be competent,
such as food services and the
organization of sporting and
other curricular activities. it
would be best to leave the situation as is.
Other opposition was based on
the premise that the university
community was "not ready"
for such a step. Professional
faculties especially w o r ried
that increased student power on
the governing body responsible
for academic standards would
endanger the acceptance of degrees from the U of A as valuable qualifications.
It was felt that students «ere
at university to get credentials,
their contribution coming after
graduation, with the feedback
of their education into the community at large. It was also
suggested that the new body
would be too large and unwieldy
to be effective.
The GFC formerly had a
membership of 82. with three
undergrad and two grad students and 49 faculty.
However, members vote on
their individual preference and
not on the instruction of the
faculty they represent, and the
new structure passed the Wednesday meeting.
In introducing the proposal,
Wyman stressed that students
are a constituent part of the
university and not mere clients
Of it.
Universities, he said. must
accept the challenge of the
future.
"The universities in the
United States do not do this and
are being ruled by fear. Academics fear students and both
fear administrators. Society is
fearful of what is happening* in
universities, and from legislation now being passed, universities in turn have good reason
to fear society. This must not
happen in Canada."
A few years ago, the U of A
had a large and active Students
for a Democratic University
group, based on the American
SDS concept. Such h i s tories
tend to make university administrators very conscious of the
student role.
Increased student representation, Wyman said, is a "challenge to stop complaining and
protesting and start initiating
and innovating."
The students council, which
is in agreement with the new
GFC composition, is opposed
to the method of selection of
student members. The proposal
that was passed would bypass
the council in favor of direct
student elections from each of
the faculties or schools.